Kaia Sand has worked as a poet, artist, organizer, and teacher. Since her work twenty years ago as a volunteer for Yellow Brick Road, much of her energy has focused on economic injustice and homelessness, from a magic show about the financial collapse to the Right 2 Survive Ambassador Program. At the end of 2017, Kaia became director of Portland's Street Roots, which publishes the city's weekly newspaper of that name. She's taught at PSU, Pacific University, Willamette University and St Mary's College of Maryland; she co-founded Vignettes & Verses, a writing and personal history institute, and she's performed and taught in England, Ireland and Brazil. Kaia's done several exhibitions and residencies, including a public art commission at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center and a Despina International Artist Residency in Rio. She's written three books of poetry: interval, Remember to Wave, and A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed up Money That Lost Its Puff, and she's a co-author of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space.
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